Victoria City, British Columbia (1901 census)

Name: Victoria City (1901)
Address: British Columbia, CA

Victoria City was a city in British Columbia, recorded in the 1901 Census of Canada with a population of 20,919. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q2132. The administrative centroid was at approximately 48.428°N, 123.356°W.

Population

In 1901, Victoria City had a population of 20,919: 12,618 male and 8,301 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1901	20,919
1911	31,660
1921	38,727

Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).

Boundary continuity (non-identical overlaps)

Spatial polygon overlaps with adjacent census years where the boundary shifted enough that the SAME_AS chain didn't merge them. These show where the territory came from and went to even when it isn't tracked as the same persistent place.

Earlier boundary forms

In an earlier year, this CSD contained Victoria, Yates Street, Ward—Quartier, 1891 (30.1% share).
In an earlier year, this CSD contained Victoria, James’ Bay, Ward—Quartier, 1891 (15.1% share).
In an earlier year, this CSD contained Victoria, Johnson Street, Ward—Quartier, 1891 (54.8% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1901

In the 1901 census, Victoria City shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1901

The 1901 census recorded 14 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 3 categories.

Population & families (1901). This community's record includes 20,919 total population, 12,618 males, 8,301 females, 7,969 single males, 4,538 single females, 4,382 married males, 4,138 families, 3,194 married females, 561 widowed females, 260 widowed males, 8 divorced females, 7 divorced males. (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Buildings & housing (1901). This community's record includes 4,061 houses. (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Agriculture (1901). This community's record includes 1,894 total area (acres). (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 66 people connected to this place who were alive in 1901, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Name	Lifespan	Connection
Henry Pering Pellew Crease	1823–1905	died here
John Sebastian Helmcken	1824–1920	died here
James Allan Grahame	1825–1905	died here
Sarah Lindley Crease	1826–1922	died here
Edward Mallandaine	1827–1905	died here
James Deans	1827–1905	died here
Peter O’Reilly	1827–1905	died here
John Jessop	1829–1901	died here
Jane Lavinia Musgrave	1830–1916	died here
Salomée Valois	1830–1906	died here
William Charles	1831–1903	died here
Benjamin William Pearse	1832–1902	died here
John Teague	1833–1902	died here
David Williams Higgins	1834–1917	died here
George Anthony Walkem	1834–1908	died here
Gilbert Malcolm Sproat	1834–1913	died here
Edgar Dewdney	1835–1916	died here
Israel Wood Powell	1836–1915	died here
Robert Beaven	1836–1920	died here
David W. Spencer	1837–1920	died here
James Douglas Warren	1837–1917	died here
John Fannin	1837–1904	died here
Charles Mair	1838–1927	died here
Noah Shakespeare Canadian politician	1839–1921	died here
Sarah McChesney	1839–1901	died here
Edward Ludlow Wetmore	1841–1922	died here
Caroline Sarah Knott	1842–1930	died here
Margaret Townsend	1843–1923	died here
Edward Francis Wilson	1844–1915	died here
Robert Paterson Rithet	1844–1919	died here
Nellie Cashman	1845–1925	died here
Elias Friedlander	1846–1927	died here
Chu Lai	1847–1906	died here
John Thomas Walbran	1848–1913	died here
Charles Frederic Newcombe	1851–1924	died here
Eliza Arden Robinson	1852–1906	died here
Maria Heathfield Pollard	1854–1937	died here
James William Troup	1855–1931	died here
John Pease Babcock	1855–1936	died here
Robert Garnett Tatlow	1855–1910	died here
John Oliver	1856–1927	died here
John Stoughton Dennis	1856–1938	died here
Sir Frank Stillman Barnard	1856–1936	died here
William L. Walsh	1857–1938	died here
James Alexander MacDonald	1858–1939	died here
Ralph Smith	1858–1917	died here
Anne Cecilia McNaughton	1859–1938	died here
A. E. (Albert Edward) McPhillips	1861–1938	died here
Edward Alexander Partridge	1861–1931	died here
George Exton Lloyd	1861–1940	died here
Clarence Nelson Cox	1862–1901	died here
James Andrew Joseph McKenna	1862–1919	died here
Mary Agnes Bernard	1862–1933	died here
William Ernest Ditchburn	1862–1932	died here
Agnes Deans Cameron	1863–1912	born and died here
Sir James Outram	1864–1925	died here
Walter Cameron Nichol	1866–1928	died here
James Hurst Hawthornthwaite	1869–1926	died here
Emily Carr	1871–1945	born and died here
Helen Letitia Mooney	1873–1951	died here
Milton Robbins Jennings	1874–1921	died here
Albert E. Todd	1878–1928	born here
Henry Joseph O'Leary	1879–1938	died here
Wenonah Marlatt	1883–1930	died here
Robert James Cromie	1887–1936	died here
Samuel Maclure	d. 1929	died here

Identifiers

TCP UID: BC004004 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_BC217001 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: Q2132
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria,_British_Columbia
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_(Colombie-Britannique)

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1901 Census of Canada, transcribed and georeferenced by the Canadian Peoples / TCP project, hosted at the HGIS Lab, University of Saskatchewan. Persistent place identity computed from spatial-overlap chains across all available census years (1851–1921). Identity grounding to Wikidata performed via the HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph project's MCP-assisted disambiguation pipeline. See the About / Methodology page for the full data pipeline.

Cite this page

Clifford, J. (2026). "Victoria City, British Columbia (1901 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/bc/victoria-city-bc004004-1901/.